When a word in single quotes falls at the end of the quotation, LaTeX decides to render it as "' instead of '". For example:
``He said it was `off the hook'''
would render: "He said it was 'off the ...

I remember, I read some article in a technical journal where the author drew the attention on the reader on a lot of people confusing typesetting languages and markup languages.
How can I surely tell ...

I work at a research center at a university in Mexico in which each investigator's CV must be formatted identically. Presently, a Microsoft Word document serves as the template, and, in addition to ...

I was wondering if people could share their experience with various mark up languages.
In particular, I am interested in situations for which you consider light markups preferable to TeX. I am also ...